Deery Series tripleheader for IMCA Late Models

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Deery Series tripleheader for IMCA Late Models

 

DAVENPORT, Iowa (April 13) – The first Deery Brothers Summer Series

tripleheader in five years comes up early in the 2009 IMCA Late Model

tour schedule, with April 17-19 race dates at Davenport Speedway,

Jackson County Speedway in Maquoketa and Quincy, Ill., Raceway.

 

All three main events pay $2,000 to win and a minimum of $250 to

start. Non-qualifiers will get $100.

 

Pit gates at Davenport open at 4 p.m. and the grandstand opens at 5

p.m. Friday, April 17. Hot laps are at 5:45 p.m. and racing starts at

6:30 p.m.

 

More information is available by calling 563 326-5338 or 563 652-5302.

 

Jackson County opens the pit gates at 4 p.m. and the grandstand at

4:30 p.m. Saturday, April 18. Hot laps are at 5:30 p.m. and racing is

at 6 p.m.; 563 652-5302 is also the number to call for additional

information about that event.

 

Grandstand admission at both Davenport and Maquoketa is $14 for

adults, $12 for seniors and teens, $6 for kids ages 7-12, and six and

under get in free.

 

Pit gates open at 3 p.m. and the grandstand opens at 5 p.m. Sunday,

April 19 at Quincy. Hot laps are at 6 p.m. and racing gets underway

at 6:30 p.m.

 

Admission is $15 for adults, $12 for seniors, $7 for teens and 10 and

under get in free. More information is available by calling 217

224-3843 or 217 224-4100.

 

Pit passes at all Deery events are $25.

 

Davenport has hosted 14 previous series races. Jeff Aikey is the only

multiple winner there, with four visits to victory lane.

 

Wet weather has been the only thing that has slowed down Terry Neal

at Jackson County. He’d won three straight tour features there before

the 2008 show was KO’d by rain.

 

Hometown hotshoe Jason Frankel became the latest winner at Quincy

Raceway when the series made its 20th visit there last August. Another local, Mark Burgtorf, has an impressive six career wins to

his Deery credit at Quincy.

 

Davenport, Maquoketa and Quincy were also sites for the last series

tripleheader, April 16-18, 2004. Rob Toland won all three of those

events, setting the stage for his tour championship that season.

 

Sixty-six Late Models were in the pits when the 23rd annual series

opened April 11 at 34 Raceway in West Burlington. Frankel led from

start to finish of the evening’s Slocum 50 Memorial.